Can’t put it much better than that
I just read about an art exhibit in New York City created by a shooting enthusiast trying to bring a fresh perspective to a city that seems dominated by the meme that someone else will protect you so you don’t have to. Alas, it was only open for one day a week ago, but I highly encourage you to visit this site whereupon you can see some images from the exhibit and where a particularly poignant paragraph was reproduced:
Guns.
It is a recent additive to our cultural mores that responsibility for our safety is safely protected by the bastions of governed police stations, fire departments, city town and state officials, our president. Whether or not to be responsible for our own safety seems optional. Someone gets paid to save us. It is not just a matter of whether you have armed yourself with a gun or kung fu or Self Defense for Dummies. It is that there is an imagined provision of harmless living that is upheld by these mores and the presence of a gun piques the subconscious fear that this may not indeed be true; that our responsibility is more than what we are agreeing to take on, and that makes us complicit and vulnerable.
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